Eugénie Barron is an artist who has been working as a hand papermaker since 1978. She has written and lectured extensively and has curated several exhibitions of the paperworks of Douglass Morse Howell. Her own work has been exhibited in both America and Europe. Ms. Barron incorporates pulp painting, watermarking and recycling into her curriculum. In her recent teaching for the Project Read initiative, she combines papermaking with the book arts.
Janet Braun-Reinitz
Artist Janet Braun-Reinitz has created over 40 public community murals in New York City, nationally, and internationally. Her murals appear at schools, parks, daycare centers, health facilities, homeless shelters, community gardens, and on two buses. Since 1995 she has been the artistic director of LaVista, a program she designed with community organizers to identify and nurture talented young visual artists in East New York, Brooklyn. For nine years she has been the artist-in-residence for ArtsConnection's Roots of American Design, a semester-long program at the High School of Fashion Industries. Ms. Braun-Reinitz is a New York Mets fan whose paintings are reproduced in Baseball: A Treasury of Arts and Literature and Diamonds Are Forever.
Donna Maria deCreeft
Donna Maria deCreeft has exhibited nationally since 1985. She is currently represented by Blue Mountain Gallery in New York City. In 1998, she was the visiting artist-in-residence at the University of Southern Maine. Ms. deCreeft has a wide range of experience teaching adults and children in a variety of media and techniques including: painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, puppetry, mask-making and basic book arts. Having grown up in a family of artists, Ms. deCreeft thoroughly understands the need to balance the excitement of the creative process with the skills and discipline necessary to sustain self-expression.
Judy Hoffman is an exhibiting studio artist and art instructor. A visual artist working in handmade paper, sculpture, installations, printmaking, and book arts, she is committed to teaching and engaging others in artmaking while assisting them to discover their own creative process and voice. She has taught art to people of all ages in community centers, public schools, and art schools throughout the New York metropolitan area. Judy has had three solo exhibitions in New York and has been in numerous group shows nationally and internationally. Her art is in private collections and she maintains a studio in Brooklyn, New York.
Noah Jemison
Noah Jemison has exhibited and presented his artwork, art environments, and performances at a number of galleries and alternative spaces including Just Above Midtown Gallery, the Studio Museum, N.A.M.E. Gallery (Chicago), and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in NYC. Mr. Jemison's work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been a visiting artist at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Iowa, among others. He is currently Executive Director of the Bronx River Art Center and Gallery.
Ross Lewis
Ross Lewis' studies in Chinese landscape painting, calligraphy, and the Mandarin language in China and Taiwan, influence all of his artistic endeavors, installations, painting, sculpture, and teaching. Recent public projects include: Parallel Motion, a 96-foot long mural for P.S./I.S.89 in Battery Park City; fanscapes, wind-activated sculptures for Central Park's Belvedere Castle; and the kinetic sculpture Roto-Sphere for the New York Hall of Science. His teaching credits include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and The New School. He has taught in New York public schools through ArtsConnection, Symphony Space, Studio In A School, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and New York Chinese Cultural Center.
Diana Goulston Robinson is a New York-based quilt artist, teacher, and exhibiting member of the Manhattan Quilters Guild who has won awards for her quilts in Australia and the U.S. Diana leads her own innovative workshops for children, adults, families, and schools and has curated exhibits of her student's quilts at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and G Street Fabrics, in Maryland, VA. She has taught at the Museum of American Folk Art, Museums at Stony Brook, Yeshiva University Museum, Brooklyn Friends School and Congregation Beth Elohim summer programs, Sew Brooklyn Inc., and at her Brooklyn studio.
Rochelle Shicoff
Rochelle Shicoff has an extensive national and international painting career both as an exhibiting artist and as a community muralist. In 1980 she was awarded the national Rome Prize Fellowship in Painting. She recently completed a mural in Taxco, Mexico, and is currently a visiting artist in two health-related mural projects at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital and Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in New York. Ms. Shicoff currently teaches at Brooklyn College and Hunter College, where she supervises and observes secondary art education student-teachers and teaches a course in Art Methods in Elementary Education.
Manuel Vega
Artist Manuel Vega works in a wide variety of mediums including painting, printmaking, murals, graphics, set and costume design, and ritual beadwork. In all his work, he strives to create imagery that serves to preserve traditions, both cultural as well as spiritual, that represent the inner city communities of New York, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa. Mr. Vega is currently an artist-in-residence at the Guggenheim Museum and El Museo Del Barrio. He has exhibited at a number of museums and galleries including The Hood Museum (Dartmouth), Marefunfun (Cuba), the Fowler Museum (UCLA), and the Bronx Museum. Vega has received numerous commissions and awards including creating a mural for the Broadway production of The Capeman by Paul Simon.
